“You’re fascinating to me”: Language Learning through Human Connection
Language is social. My colleague Joshua Yardley (look for all his great blog posts) recently recommended a brief lecture to me on Ted Talks, called
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Technology in TESOL: News You Can Use
I’m sure plenty of you in the TEFL field have spent hours combing the Internet looking for exercises, only to find yourself amazed at how
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Technology in TESOL: Smart Phones
I am not ashamed to admit that I enjoy Star Trek. If you are like me, you may have noticed that our world today is
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Technology in TESOL: The Wiki
It’s widely accepted that student collaboration is an effective tool in the TESOL classroom. Outside of the class, more and more collaboration is done online
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Part II – Reading Techniques for Learner-Centered Teaching: “That’s just like my cousin…”
Part I of this article “Reading Techniques for Learning-Centered Teaching” established how designing student-centered activities after reading motivates English language learners to speak and write. Part
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Reading Techniques for Learner-Centered Teaching Part I: “That’s just like my cousin…”
A recent article in TESOL Journal discussed how to create a more student-centered ESL classroom by providing follow-up projects on reading, in which students personalized the
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Do You CCQ? Using Concept Checking Questions in the ESL Classroom
“Right?” “Does that make sense?” “Do you have it?” “OK?”
It does not matter how a teacher phrases: “Do you understand?” All of these questions are
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What Every EFL Teacher Should Know: Teaching English for Exams, Part 1
I don’t like tests. In elementary we took the Iowa Test of Basic Skills and the only positive that came out of that experience was Mrs.
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Why Build a Multicultural Perspective in the TEFL Classroom?
While many TEFL graduates will be teaching monolingual and mono-national EFL classes, it is still important to build cultural competency among your learners. In addition
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Testing in TESOL Part 3: Authentic Assessment
The first two parts of this series covered a variety of testing types, but I wanted to give this one its own post: authentic assessment.
